Harald Hagen 🏳️🌈
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✍️ Game Writer + Narrative Designer, to the great disapproval of my cats. Based in Yorkshire. He/him.
🎮 BG&E2 ▪︎ Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows ▪︎ The Stillness of the Wind ▪︎ NEO Scavenger ▪︎ etc.
💼 haraldthehagen.com
✍️ Game Writer + Narrative Designer, to the great disapproval of my cats. Based in Yorkshire. He/him.
🎮 BG&E2 ▪︎ Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows ▪︎ The Stillness of the Wind ▪︎ NEO Scavenger ▪︎ etc.
💼 haraldthehagen.com
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Welcome!
I'm a game writer and narrative designer from 🇮🇩🇧🇻, now UK-based. Over the past decade, I've worked freelance on a bunch of cool games, including the ones below.
Indie/AAA, sole writer/team co-writing, joined early/recruited late. All sorts of shenanigans.
Feel free to connect and say hey!
I'm a game writer and narrative designer from 🇮🇩🇧🇻, now UK-based. Over the past decade, I've worked freelance on a bunch of cool games, including the ones below.
Indie/AAA, sole writer/team co-writing, joined early/recruited late. All sorts of shenanigans.
Feel free to connect and say hey!
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I'm gonna put my posts where my mouth is and give y'all a list. I'm gonna try to make most of them this year or recent but I also got some older ones I need y'all to play.
Also, if some of them aren't technically indie my bad (the definition is so fluctuating nowadays anyway)
Also, if some of them aren't technically indie my bad (the definition is so fluctuating nowadays anyway)
New rule this year: If you post "Play more indie games" during the game awards, you are required to make a thread recommending 50 of them.
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I'm gonna put my posts where my mouth is and give y'all a list. I'm gonna try to make most of them this year or recent but I also got some older ones I need y'all to play.
Also, if some of them aren't technically indie my bad (the definition is so fluctuating nowadays anyway)
Also, if some of them aren't technically indie my bad (the definition is so fluctuating nowadays anyway)
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
Dreamt I was fervently shopping for a Ghostbusters-themed necklace and I don't know how to even begin unpacking this or what it says about the economy
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Dreamt I was fervently shopping for a Ghostbusters-themed necklace and I don't know how to even begin unpacking this or what it says about the economy
I'm hopping* on a plane next week for the first time since 2019 and I'm feeling all sorts of ways.
* = 'Hopping' is the wrong word. More likely it'll be an anxiously hurried slugcrawl.
* = 'Hopping' is the wrong word. More likely it'll be an anxiously hurried slugcrawl.
December 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I'm hopping* on a plane next week for the first time since 2019 and I'm feeling all sorts of ways.
* = 'Hopping' is the wrong word. More likely it'll be an anxiously hurried slugcrawl.
* = 'Hopping' is the wrong word. More likely it'll be an anxiously hurried slugcrawl.
Control Resonant gets the biggest HELL YES/FUCK YEAH/WOO HOO from me for the evening. Hot damn!
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Control Resonant gets the biggest HELL YES/FUCK YEAH/WOO HOO from me for the evening. Hot damn!
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For this week's PC Gamer column, I wrote about the obscure yet brilliant NEO Scavenger, a survival game that secretly has the best inventory system in the medium. www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...
PC gaming's best inventory system is hidden in this obscure post-apocalyptic roguelike from the dawn of the survival craze
NEO Scavenger puts the invent in inventory.
www.pcgamer.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
For this week's PC Gamer column, I wrote about the obscure yet brilliant NEO Scavenger, a survival game that secretly has the best inventory system in the medium. www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...
Pixels feel like home.
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Pixels feel like home.
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Poly Fighter Steam Playtest starts TOMORROW at 12 PM EST until the end of the week!
Jump in, experiment, and tell us what you think. Your feedback truly helps shape the game.
Join the playtest on Steam now:
store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/...
#GetReadyToFight #IndieGame #Playtest #Steam
Jump in, experiment, and tell us what you think. Your feedback truly helps shape the game.
Join the playtest on Steam now:
store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/...
#GetReadyToFight #IndieGame #Playtest #Steam
Poly Fighter on Steam
Poly Fighter is a single-player roguelike fighting game. Learn new moves from every opponent you defeat to build your fighter’s unique style. Battle through tense retro-arcade duels with beginner-frie...
store.steampowered.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Poly Fighter Steam Playtest starts TOMORROW at 12 PM EST until the end of the week!
Jump in, experiment, and tell us what you think. Your feedback truly helps shape the game.
Join the playtest on Steam now:
store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/...
#GetReadyToFight #IndieGame #Playtest #Steam
Jump in, experiment, and tell us what you think. Your feedback truly helps shape the game.
Join the playtest on Steam now:
store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/...
#GetReadyToFight #IndieGame #Playtest #Steam
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif.
Hard Mode: No Star Wars or Marvel
Hard Mode: No Star Wars or Marvel
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif.
Hard Mode: No Star Wars or Marvel
Hard Mode: No Star Wars or Marvel
TNG "Lessons" was so sweet in hitting those gold notes of early love when you're just innocently sharing all the wonderful words and knowledge and passion that you inhaled from your crush, never being the first person to notice your feelings, bearing your soul to them (fab "Inner Light" follow-up).
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
TNG "Lessons" was so sweet in hitting those gold notes of early love when you're just innocently sharing all the wonderful words and knowledge and passion that you inhaled from your crush, never being the first person to notice your feelings, bearing your soul to them (fab "Inner Light" follow-up).
Finally reached this TNG episode. I am well chuffed.
a close up of a man 's face in front of a door
ALT: a close up of a man 's face in front of a door
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Finally reached this TNG episode. I am well chuffed.
EXT. Night. Raining. A city of neon, broken dreams. In the distance, sirens.
A man slips into an alley.
"Stop," a voice calls.
"I have the money," begs the man.
From shadows, a figure. In hand, radiant discs.
"W-Who are you?" asks the man.
A smile—
"Just a ghost smuggling stories into games."
A man slips into an alley.
"Stop," a voice calls.
"I have the money," begs the man.
From shadows, a figure. In hand, radiant discs.
"W-Who are you?" asks the man.
A smile—
"Just a ghost smuggling stories into games."
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
EXT. Night. Raining. A city of neon, broken dreams. In the distance, sirens.
A man slips into an alley.
"Stop," a voice calls.
"I have the money," begs the man.
From shadows, a figure. In hand, radiant discs.
"W-Who are you?" asks the man.
A smile—
"Just a ghost smuggling stories into games."
A man slips into an alley.
"Stop," a voice calls.
"I have the money," begs the man.
From shadows, a figure. In hand, radiant discs.
"W-Who are you?" asks the man.
A smile—
"Just a ghost smuggling stories into games."
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OPPORTUNITY Arc Raiders - Narrative Designer
Not affiliated. Shares welcome!
careers.embark-studios.com/jobs/6883281...
Not affiliated. Shares welcome!
careers.embark-studios.com/jobs/6883281...
Narrative Designer - ARC Raiders - Embark Studios
As a Narrative Designer, you will be the key link between the story and the gameplay. You will design, implement, and maintain the gameplay systems and interactions that help deliver narrative to t...
careers.embark-studios.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
OPPORTUNITY Arc Raiders - Narrative Designer
Not affiliated. Shares welcome!
careers.embark-studios.com/jobs/6883281...
Not affiliated. Shares welcome!
careers.embark-studios.com/jobs/6883281...
Marks & Spencer
Batman & Robin
Spelling & Punctuation
Batman & Robin
Spelling & Punctuation
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Marks & Spencer
Batman & Robin
Spelling & Punctuation
Batman & Robin
Spelling & Punctuation
When withers the rose
Pour not the river
But two hands holding
Two clear breaths of hope.
Pour not the river
But two hands holding
Two clear breaths of hope.
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
When withers the rose
Pour not the river
But two hands holding
Two clear breaths of hope.
Pour not the river
But two hands holding
Two clear breaths of hope.
I Have No Discourse But I Must Skeet
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I Have No Discourse But I Must Skeet
Imagine if our brains came with a manual
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Imagine if our brains came with a manual
Sunday is a day
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Sunday is a day
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
I was recently just thinking about this, imagining if just for the next 12 months UBI took care of bills.
▪︎ 3 small games (Twine, Ren'py, Arcweave, Godot, not sure which yet)
▪︎ 1 book (likely a short story collection, but maybe a novel)
▪︎ 3 small games (Twine, Ren'py, Arcweave, Godot, not sure which yet)
▪︎ 1 book (likely a short story collection, but maybe a novel)
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I was recently just thinking about this, imagining if just for the next 12 months UBI took care of bills.
▪︎ 3 small games (Twine, Ren'py, Arcweave, Godot, not sure which yet)
▪︎ 1 book (likely a short story collection, but maybe a novel)
▪︎ 3 small games (Twine, Ren'py, Arcweave, Godot, not sure which yet)
▪︎ 1 book (likely a short story collection, but maybe a novel)
Realised I've fallen behind on my TNG log, but there have been some ace episodes!
Tonight's was "Rascals" - very fun. A good reminder that Picard is - diplomacy and integrity aside - still a man possessed of vanity. Great moment when he reverts to his age, touching his head with a bashful smile.
Tonight's was "Rascals" - very fun. A good reminder that Picard is - diplomacy and integrity aside - still a man possessed of vanity. Great moment when he reverts to his age, touching his head with a bashful smile.
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Realised I've fallen behind on my TNG log, but there have been some ace episodes!
Tonight's was "Rascals" - very fun. A good reminder that Picard is - diplomacy and integrity aside - still a man possessed of vanity. Great moment when he reverts to his age, touching his head with a bashful smile.
Tonight's was "Rascals" - very fun. A good reminder that Picard is - diplomacy and integrity aside - still a man possessed of vanity. Great moment when he reverts to his age, touching his head with a bashful smile.
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To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
Please put on your helmets and GameFAQs is 30 years old.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Please put on your helmets and GameFAQs is 30 years old.
Holy hell, what ungodly right does Demonschool have in being this damn stylish to behold and this damn satisfying to play?? IT'S SO GOOD.
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Holy hell, what ungodly right does Demonschool have in being this damn stylish to behold and this damn satisfying to play?? IT'S SO GOOD.
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narrative design is giving Storm's omega-level weather powers a clip size so that after 12 attacks she has to 'reload her wind'
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
narrative design is giving Storm's omega-level weather powers a clip size so that after 12 attacks she has to 'reload her wind'